Boston school of impressionism

After the armistice, Gammell enjoyed considerable success as a portrait painter, but he always aspired to take on larger-scale paintings with more intellectual themes derived from his reading in religion and classical literature.

The intellectual foundation of his allegorical work was laid at Groton. Interpreted through the lens of the psychological writings of Carl Jung, this series incorporates the major intellectual themes that fascinated Gammell throughout his life. In addition, the gallery has secured a particularly comprehensive selection of paintings from later periods in his career, all generously loaned by private collectors.

For the next 10 years she lived and worked abroad in Cairo, Oxford, and Vienna, exhibiting widely. In , when she returned to the U. As the works in this exhibition demonstrate, the traditions of the Boston School of Painting continue to flourish in the 21st century.

Excellence in design and drawing coupled with sensitively observed and rendered variations of color provide a universally recognized standard in picturemaking. The de Menil Gallery is open from 9 a. Closed April , Admission is always free. Groton School. Groton School Mission: To inspire lives of character, scholarship, leadership, and service within a diverse, inclusive, and close-knit community. Box Groton, MA Tel: School Store.

The original Boston School artists were genteel rebel-idealists who turned their backs on the prevailing trends in American painting and made of their art a quest for timeless principles and classical beauty that they found neither in the romantic-pastoral landscapes of the Hudson River School nor the commonplace subject matter of the genre painters.

They embraced the new, and, paradoxically, found themselves at the feet of the great masters of Neoclassical Realism, for their work synthesized classical European ideals with adaptations of French avant-garde stylistic trends.

These same men later occupied influential positions as teachers and thought-leaders in the cultural and artistic milieu of the time. The net result is a unique moment in the history of American art -- a legacy handed down from master to pupil that is without parallel in the American art world today.

Boston's brief prominence at the leading-edge of late nineteenth-century American art lasted just long enough for the school's artists to forge enduring links not only to Barbizon and the Impressionists but, by association, to the masters of French eighteenth-century classical realism.

Contemporary painters working in the Boston School tradition today can point to a chain linking master to pupil stretching back from twentieth-century Boston artist and teacher R.

No other distinct group of contemporary American painters can trace their lineage to so formidable a roster of European masters. The Boston School aesthetic blended sophistication, exacting skill, and draftsmanship with mastery of light and dedication to representing the "truth" of the visible world; it was driven by an earnest faith in the ideal of beauty and in the act of painting as an essentially good and worthy contribution to humanity.

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